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Decameron

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De`cam´e`ron
n.1.A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; - written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.
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Decameron comes from two Greek words deka, ten, and hemera, a day, the book being so called because the stories in it were supposed to be told in ten days.
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Having met the advance made to him, in those terms, he paused, expecting Geoffrey to leave him free to return to the Decameron.
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Some critics believe that her garden was the scene of The Decameron, which lends it an additional interest, does it not?
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